“Wakey, wakey, eggs and bacey/bakey!” means, “Wake up, breakfast of eggs and bacon is ready!” “Wakey! Wakey! Eggs and bac-y!” was cited in print in 1995.
9 October 1995, St. Petersburg (FL) Times, Floridian, pg. 1D:
Wakey! Wakey! Eggs and bac-y!
12 October 1997, Winnipeg (Manitoba) Free Press, pg. A3, col. 2 ad:
WAKEY WAKEY
EGGS AND BACEY, WERE YOUR MORNING SMILE,
CALL TODAY, DON’T DELAY WE WILL GO THE EXTRA MILE
(A travel service.—ed.)
2 August 1998, The Facts (Clute, TX), pg. 32, col. 1:
Today I awoke to my mother’s play voice chanting, “Wakey, wakey, eggs and bacey!” In other words, “Wake up, I cooked eggs and bacon!”
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Google Books
Kill Bill:
An Unofficial Casebook
By D. K. Holm
London: Glitter
2004
Pg. ?:
Time Code: 0:31:46
Information: Dialogue, “Wakey, wakey. Eggs and bakey.”
The catch phrase of band leader Billy Cotton.
Google Books
Faithful:
Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
By Stewart O’Nan and Stephen King
New York, NY: Scribner
2004
Pg. ?:
SO: You going for the sweep today? Wakey-wakey, eggs and bakey.
YouTube
Wakey Wakey - Eggs and Bakey
Dave Hudson
Uploaded on Jul 30, 2007
A video for the song “Wakey Wakey” from the musical, “A Cabin with a View” - footage is from archive.org.
Urban Dictionary
Wakey, wakey eggs and bakey!
Getting up super early in the morning for a nice long bong hit followed by a GREAT BIG breakfast.
I woke up this morning and said to my friend “Wakey, wakey eggs and bakey!” and he knew I wanted to smoke some pot and eat some food.
by Renee11 Sep 18, 2009
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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